Only few people know the thrill of seeing their artwork on a U.S. postage stamp. Trenna Ruffner, a bobbin lace maker who lives in Grosse Pointe Park, happens to be among that relatively small number ...

When Mary Salmon of Northville looks at a piece of vintage handmade lace, she sees much more than carefully crafted, delicately beautiful geometric patterns spun from threads. What she sees, instead, ...

When the Brooklyn Lace Guild received an email from Columbia Law School over the summer of 2018, Elena Kanagy-Loux was intrigued, if not surprised. She couldn’t imagine what a law school would ...

Virtually all lace today is made on machines. Handmade lace, so dear to old ladies, is an insignificant item in world trade, and most of it is made not in Europe but in China. France and England are ...

KONIAKÓW, Poland -- Wiesława Juroszek was only 6 years old when she learned the intricate handicraft of lace crocheting from the women in her family as part of a long tradition in their little ...

Lyn Bailey believes the first time she saw someone making lace was when she was a child visiting Belgium. And she’s been fascinated with it ever since. “Lace is my passion,” says Bailey, of Lancaster ...

The laces made in Belgium during World War I are an important part of the lace holdings of the Division of Home and Community Life’s Textile Collection in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American ...

If lacemaking ever duplicates knitting’s hip resurgence, it won’t be through street art installations like yarn bombing. Making lace by hand is so labor-intensive — you’re doing well if you can crank ...

I’m the ninth generation of my family to be in the lace trade. The Cluny Lace factory, near Nottingham, was built in the 1880s, but we had machines in Ilkeston and Long Eaton before then. By the 1730s ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Examining clothes through the ages, Dress Codes investigates how the rules of fashion have influenced different cultural arenas — and your closet. In a windowless room at the ...

KONIAKOW, Poland (AP) — Wiesława Juroszek was only 6 years old when she learned the intricate handicraft of lace crocheting from the women in her family as part of a long tradition in their little ...